Couple arrested after alleged false report, assault on deputy

By Wes Wolfe, Staff Writer

Published: Wednesday, January 30, 2013 at 09:32 PM.

The report states Sutton and Ingram were both back at the Crepe Myrtle Street house when the deputy arrived, telling him they weren’t going to press charges. The deputy asked Sutton for his ID, and he handed it over. Asked for his girlfriend’s real name, Sutton said it was Temonica. The deputy gave Ingram a pen and paper and asked her to write down her full name and birth date. She wrote, “Nicole Ingram,” and the deputy asked again.

Then, according to the deputy’s narrative, “she began cussing and stated, ‘I don’t have to do this s—-,’ and began walking away. I instructed Ms. Ingram at that time to stop and she continued to walk away. I then reached out to grab her coat sleeve to stop her from leaving and she turned to me and attempted to strike me in the face. Ms. Ingram continued to strike at me, eventually striking me in the nose and eye area with her right hand.

“I told her she was under arrest and to stop resisting. Ms. Ingram continued to attempt to get away from me and was forced to the ground and placed in handcuffs.”

Two more deputies arrived at the scene after the reporting deputy placed Ingram in his patrol car.

They were given permission to search the Ford Explorer on the property, attempting to locate the suspected gun. No weapon was found, but deputies recovered a hundredth of a gram of marijuana and a set of digital scales.

Ingram was placed in the Lenoir County Jail under a $9,000 bond for assault on a government official, resisting arrest and filing a false report. Sutton received a $700 bond for misdemeanor possession of a Schedule VI controlled substance, possession of drug paraphernalia and filing a false report.

You could call it a cautionary tale of allegedly pointing fingers in the wrong direction.

Saturday at 4:15 p.m., a Lenoir County Sheriff’s Office deputy responded to a disturbance on the 2600 block of Crepe Myrtle Street, where he encountered two people who answered to — but did not provide IDs to verify — the names of Ramon Sutton and Sabrina Nicole Sutton, according to a LCSO incident report.

The couple told the deputy that Sabrina’s uncle and cousin showed up to the residence, whereupon the cousin pulled out a gun and gave it to the uncle saying, “Here, I don’t need this.” She said her cousin then punched her and pushed her to the floor.

Ramon said the cousin took the gun back and said while leaving, “I’ll do you later,” according to the report.

The report mentions Sabrina did not show signs of a physical altercation.

The deputy was told the uncle and cousin went to a location on the 1400 block of Hamilton Boulevard. The deputy advised the couple of their options as to pressing charges, and they said they would, leaving the residence — the deputy believed — to go to the magistrate’s office.

When the deputy arrived at the Hamilton Boulevard residence, he encountered three people who provided written statements saying they had been to the Crepe Myrtle Street house to collect rent when Emanuel Ramon Sutton pulled a gun on them, causing them to leave the location. They also attested the cousin in question was in Snow Hill and hadn’t been in the area that day, and that Sabrina’s name was really Temonica Nicole Ingram.

The report states Sutton and Ingram were both back at the Crepe Myrtle Street house when the deputy arrived, telling him they weren’t going to press charges. The deputy asked Sutton for his ID, and he handed it over. Asked for his girlfriend’s real name, Sutton said it was Temonica. The deputy gave Ingram a pen and paper and asked her to write down her full name and birth date. She wrote, “Nicole Ingram,” and the deputy asked again.

Then, according to the deputy’s narrative, “she began cussing and stated, ‘I don’t have to do this s—-,’ and began walking away. I instructed Ms. Ingram at that time to stop and she continued to walk away. I then reached out to grab her coat sleeve to stop her from leaving and she turned to me and attempted to strike me in the face. Ms. Ingram continued to strike at me, eventually striking me in the nose and eye area with her right hand.

“I told her she was under arrest and to stop resisting. Ms. Ingram continued to attempt to get away from me and was forced to the ground and placed in handcuffs.”

Two more deputies arrived at the scene after the reporting deputy placed Ingram in his patrol car.

They were given permission to search the Ford Explorer on the property, attempting to locate the suspected gun. No weapon was found, but deputies recovered a hundredth of a gram of marijuana and a set of digital scales.

Ingram was placed in the Lenoir County Jail under a $9,000 bond for assault on a government official, resisting arrest and filing a false report. Sutton received a $700 bond for misdemeanor possession of a Schedule VI controlled substance, possession of drug paraphernalia and filing a false report.

Wes Wolfe can be reached at 252-559-1075 or wes.wolfe@kinston.com. Follow him on Twitter at WolfeReports.